“You’ve just got to get in his face and limit his time and space,” Maroon said. “If he even has a little bit of time, he can make that pass and make that play.

“He’s been shooting more than usual and that’s the Getzy I used to know. He’s a pass-first kind of guy. I guess they’ve been telling him to shoot a lot.”

The Oilers are young in playoff years compared to the Ducks, but need to summon emotional resilience when they give up a goal or a call doesn’t go their way, said McLellan.

“What I mean by that is they score 25 seconds into Game 3 and we didn’t recover from that real quick,” the coach explained. “It took us half a game. They score the fourth goal and we never did recover off that.

“Last night we’re up by two, we don’t play well for a short period, they get going, it takes us a long time to recover.

“The emotional recovery and the ability to get back on task has to happen a little bit quicker for our team.”

Officials waived off icing just prior to Anaheim’s OT winner, but the Oilers lacked a sense of urgency on that play. Getzlaf had time at the boards to get a pass away to a wide-open Silfverberg.

“I’m not sure why it was waived off. Never did get an explanation,” McLellan said.

“When it is waived off, it has to be the responsibility of the rest of the players to finish out the play, so there’s two pieces. Disappointed in both.”

The Oilers could use more production from their second line of Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, Milan Lucic and Jordan Eberle, which has just one goal this series.

The Ducks have also dominated the faceoff circle winning 60 per cent.

“You win a draw, you get to control what happens in the shift,” McLellan said.

Selke nominee Ryan Kesler is 100-for-183 in post-season draws. Only Washington’s Nicklas Backstrom (105-for-224) has gone to the dot more in this year’s playoffs.